Life of Riley

Gain entertainment from politics. Source your bitterness in the real world... and laugh at it.

Life of Riley is a collection of political satires from Australia. More

This collection is a retrospective selection of satires written in the 1990s with some dating from the following decade.

Some were recycled as dialogue for performance as they were written for street theatre troupes. Some were recorded and published as part of a podcast project. Some were aired on radio both in Australia and in the United States. Most were published as a weekly newspaper column

Dave Riley is a blogger and occasional podcaster based in the seaside township of Beachmere, near Brisbane , Queensland, Australia.

He wrote the 'Life of Riley' columns for Green Left Weekly during the 1990s. As well as writing satire he has written journalism and short plays.

In the 1970s and again in the 1990s he formed and ran street theatre troupes. He has also written and performed cabaret and experimented with online media. During a puppetry phase, he created and toured a Punch and Judy show as 'Professor Ratbaggy's Red Cordial Show' before audiences of disapproving adults and rioting under twelves.

Over his working life he has worked as a nurse, political organiser, laborer,process worker, community artist, mask maker and writer.

Dave sees himself primarily as a satirist --albeit one with a dark and mordant POV -- and will offer an opinion on anything you care to mention.

He grows vegetables, takes terriers for walks and sails a canoe in the shallow waters of Deception Bay.